Coming soon (I hope)…

To those of you who check in regularly: Thank you, I’m honored. And I apologize for the lull here.

I have a backlog of ballets I’m eager to respond to: Alexei Ratmansky’s incredible premiere for New York City Ballet; Michael Clark’s worthy Stravinsky nights at Lincoln Center Great Performances, too easily dismissed by the Times (the only paper to review it, I think); Tharp’s admirably epic and somehow opaque “Rabbit and Rogue” for American Ballet Theatre, also given a Times beating (I detect a pattern here); and some more thoughts on Robbins–how much he tells you by his dancers’ exits and entrances–as the Robbins festival at New York City Ballet continues. But I won’t let myself do any of that until I finish a pile of paying work. So, we’ll see how much you care by the time I get around to it.

In the meantime–or in any case–check out regular Times contributor Claudia La Rocco’s omnivore blog The Culturist on WNYC’s web site: interesting stuff.

Apollinaire Scherr

is the New York-based dance critic for the Financial Times. She has written regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsday, as well as SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, in the Bay Area. She has contributed to... Read More…

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